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Comment by tdaltonc | Hacker News Reader

It's like people think that they know some nutritional secret that soylent hasn't thought of. I take them on their word that they're taking this seriously and every time I read a comment about "Soylent is so clueless! How could they have thought of 'X'?!" then I google "soylent X" and find an extremely detained post explaining how they're taken 'X' in to account.

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Really? I saw Soylent claim to "put you in perfect health", and claim to be suitable for anybody.

Both of those are dangerous, scumbag, claims. Soylent has not retracted those claims. They did quietly drop them though.

That's what iterative improvement looks like. You make mistakes, then you stop making them.

That's not what I want from people making medical products. Or food.

Yet the medical community and food industries still have iterative processes. It's a miracle you still live.

Dunning-kruger in effect. We are all at least layman when it comes to nutrition and health, so you get people who dont know what they dont know commenting on something to reassure their views. They dont do the research, because they already "know" the right answer.

We should be skeptical of any food stuff the purports to be nutritionally near perfect, but Soylent looks like its on track.

> Dunning-kruger in effect

Are you talking about Soylent or people criticising Soylent?

Because, for a company that's supposed to have done all tue research, they've made a couple of errors.

That might not sound like much but liquid feeds are not new; there are plenty of people that have experience in liquid feeds; so there's not much excuse to make the mistakes Soylent made.

So they are not perfect demi gods?

Burn them!

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